Common Quote by Sylvia Pankhurst

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control…

— Ludwig von Mises

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not…

— Bernie Sanders

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic,…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big…

— Kshama Sawant

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based…

— Virginia Postrel

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by…

— Ayn Rand

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other…

— Milton Friedman

Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far…

— Noam Chomsky

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

— Bernie Sanders

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism…

— Joseph Goebbels